The counterintuitive hypocrisy of moral anti-realist atheists

They tell us there are no real objective moral values or duties, and then they participate in transcendent moral causes regarding objective human dignity, rights, and values.

Like a man who says there is no such thing as baseball, and then knocks on your door with his mitt, ball, and bat, and says, “Come play ball!”

Like a man who says there is no such thing as a beautiful sunset, and yet has a beautiful painting of one on his bedroom wall.

Like a woman who says children have no dignity, value, or real beauty, as she rocks her baby, cooing, singing, loving.

Moral anti-realist atheists are hypocrites because they otherwise love and celebrate and participate in what they say doesn’t exist. They are hypocrites for being good neighbors, friends, citizens, human beings — lovers of humanity, lovers of beauty, lovers of a good moral cause. They treat humans like souls, animals like creatures, and life like a meaningful epic to be written.